Do you remember everything you learn about Linux?
 

Do you remember everything you learn about Linux?
If I learn some difficult thing and don't use it for some time, I usually forget some part of it. Or even almost all of it (depends on amount of details). That makes me kinda sad. :)

At my age, I have to be selective in what I try to remember. If I know where to find something, then I don't have to remember it. As this progresses, I expect that the real trick will be to remember where to find my keyboard and how to spell G..O..O..G..L..E

Seriously, the trick (at any age) is to remember concepts and not details. If you know in general what--eg--GREP does, then all you have to remember is "man grep".

Hi,

I too used to have a good memory. Most of the stuff I use on a daily basis (or weekly for that matter) are still lurking around in the grey matter, but other things that I don't frequently use get lost along the road. That why a couple of months ago I started saving things worth remembering on my WOAS which resides on a 32Gb USB stick. I love having that at hand since it saves me lots of headaches trying to remember or lookup things.

Kind regards,

Eric

I can't remember whether I've forgotten anything...what was the question again?

I agree with the concepts part. I'd say half of knowledge is not in knowing things but knowing where to find things.

In college, I never could remember formulas and equations---on tests I would often just derive them on the fly. Now I can't remember what college is.......;)

Totally agree with the above posters! I used to have a great memory, but it's not so great anymore. There's stuff burned into my brain that I still remember from programming back on the C=64, and probably will never forget, but when it comes to stuff from the latest decade or two, it doesn't stay so permanently.

As mentioned, the key is knowing how to find those tutorials, help pages, whatever, that you need to refresh yourself on stuff that is getting forgotten, rather than trying to (or worrying about) remembering everything.

When I take a break from computing these days, I find when I get back to it that I've begun forgetting all sorts of little things -- but there's always a man page or forum thread pretty handy that helps a lot.

NO ... !
Linux or better speak GNU/Linux is big project . I do not find or understand end of it .
today I learning science of linux and tomorrow will make new linux science ... and try again ... .
excuse me for bad English . :)

Yes.

Every single detail or argument?
Tell us a secret of splendid memory. :)

Back when I was younger I always thought the line "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know" was just a way to indicate how ignorant someone else is. Nowadays I realize it might in fact be a literal statement.

The thing about IT is it evolves all the time. Forgetting what I knew about RS232c, uucp etc... isn't really that big a deal when everything is using CAT5 (or better) and TCP/IP. Of course on occasion you do get some legacy or odd system that still relies on things you used to know. I started making copious notes around 1992 or so after a manager asked me what I did all day. Those notes help a lot when I need to go revisit something I know I did in the past but haven't done in some time. There in flat text files created with vi/vim and I simply need to grep through them to find what I need. Often I've thought of posting them all to a blog just to see how many people I could bore with them. :D

I am a robot.

No.

As pixellany said, the trick is to remember concepts and that something is possible. If you can remember that something is possible, you can probably find out how do it via Google.(*)

Notes help as well. If you figure out how to something that's bit obscure that you couldn't find in ten seconds on Google, make a note of it for future reference. I hate knowing that I've done something before but being completely unable to remember how I did it. If you write a script to do something, litter it with comments on anything that isn't glaringly obvious. It saves you from looking a scripts in the future and thinking 'Why did I do that when it would be more obviously to do it this other way?' then spending ten minutes re-learning that the obvious way doesn't actually work in this case.


(*) Using Google to find stuff is a skill in itself. Not something I'd ever considered but I was once talking to someone at work and commented that I sometimes get support calls where I have no idea what the answer is and so I Google it and then reply whilst thinking 'Why didn't they just Google it themselves?' They said to me, "When you search for the answer on Google you'll find it. They probably won't."

No, have mrd disease(memory retention disorder) usually have trouble remembering what I just read, If it's not in front of me, out of sight out of mind. The trick is to know how to find the info your needing and understanding the information that is found. Like others, use to have a real good memory, then would forget things but knew I forgot something, now when I forget things it's as if it never happened, even when reminded by others. One day I'm going to wake up turn to my wife and say "who are you?" then go look in the mirror and ask "well, who are you?"

Yes.

Unfortunately, I haven't learned much. :o